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Show Hughes supports Owens on State visit Senator Harold Hughes of Iowa was in Utah two days camp aigning for Wayne Owens last week, and spoke about Americas great potential poten-tial for solving domestic and world problems. "We have the resources and the brains," Hughes said, "all we need is the commitment." On the whirlwind tour of the state the Senator and candi date Owens were in Cedar City for a lecture at the Southern South-ern Utah State College and for and informal dinner with Democratic De-mocratic Party leaders of the area. Hughes traveled with Owens to St. George, Tooole and Salt Lake in behalf of the political candidate. The former governor of Iowa described Owens as "a rare young man with a depth of quality . . . balanced character char-acter ... a whole young man." He told the political leaders that Owens possesed the spir: itual ability "to know what we are, who we are $nd what we are doing here." The visiting dignitary who serves as the Assistant Majority Major-ity Whip of the U. S. Senate told students at SUSC as well as those on campuses of Dixie College, Westminster and University Uni-versity of Utah, "we have the resources and assets to fight every problem that exists in this nation and in the world. In order to solve the problems that face us all we need is the willingness to do so." The Sen-ator Sen-ator said, however, "When we have a commitment of 25 rail-lion rail-lion dollars to find a cure for cancer as opposed to a billion dollars for a single aircraft carrier, you begin to see the differences of our commitments commit-ments and the . need Jor change." Hughes also criticized the Nixon administration sayinjj the President has not delivered deliver-ed on his promises. "In his campaign four years ago Nix; on told us we should judge an administration by what it J does, not by what it says." He then stated that President Nixon said he had a plan t end the war, and that he pled: ged to fight inflation and foal- i ance the budget. "But what does the record show?" Hugh- es asked. "It shows a continu- ing war blowing. It shows the 1 inflationary spiral continues at a level of almost five per- cent. It shows in the last three years a 64 billion dollar defi- cit, and a projected, deficit for , this year of 40 billion dollars." Owens discussed his 689 i mile trek through the second congressional district of the state in ah interview in Cedar City. The candidate talked to 8,300 people either indiyidu-ally indiyidu-ally or in small groups on a face to face basis. He walked through all 11 of the counties in the district and. visited 70 communities. , . "I know more albout the state than I did before I started," start-ed," he commented. The political hopeful Indicated Indi-cated that several specific problems were discussedwith community leaders along the way. The Veyp situation , regarding re-garding life "ra'ISmgolf quail vet forced to meet came bird regylations, was one of many Issues that he found worthy of consideration if ha were elected to the U- S. Congress. The power Issue In Enterprise, th prdblems of the land fill garbage system In Cedar City were others presented prdblems prdb-lems for which a congrssional candidate should be concerned he indicated. As to his political future ' 6wens Indicated that he hopes to aquire 70 percent of the delegates at the State Democratic Demo-cratic convention to avoid the necessity of a primary election. elec-tion. "That's Just a hope at this point," he emphasized. Beyond the primary, should he be victorious to carry the Democratic banner, Owens said that he hoped to break even in the predominantly Republican southern Utah section sec-tion of the state. Commenting further on his walking trek Owens indicated that he felt that a strong California Cal-ifornia influence was moving into the southern portion at the state. This Is the result, he indicated, of a great number of people moving out of California Calif-ornia into the area and particularly par-ticularly into the smaller communities com-munities for retirement purposes. |